Deborah: 3153 books
by Deborah Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (particularly...
by Deborah Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron’s work on language, gender and sex in one single volume. Arranged thematically, this book covers major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron’s responses to these, spanning the last twenty years.
The...
by Deborah Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Goodbye, Sagebrush is a semi-autobiographical tale of one young girl's experience moving from the Wyoming frontier of her upbringing to the "big city" of Salt Lake, at the tail end of the Great Depression. As Dottie 'Rie travels the long road to Utah's capital city, her mind drifts...
by Sandra L. Dearholt, MS, RN
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and Guidelines has proven to be one of the most foundational books on EBP in nursing. This fully revised third edition builds on the strength of the first two editions with updated content based on more than a decade of the model’s use and refinement...
by Deborah Nam-Krane
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Annabelle Hendrickson always knew Alex Sheldon couldn't be trusted, but even she couldn't have guessed how far he was willing to go to get what he wanted.
No one was as decent as her brother Jim, but Stephen Abbot had a kind soul behind his mischief. She could accept his reprobate father- he'd...
The INS on the Line
Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different. Here, they confronted a set of political, social, and environmental obstacles that prevented them from replicating their achievements on Angel Island...
Quest for Status
Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
A look at how the desire to improve international status affects Russia's and China's foreign policies
Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko argue that the desire for world status plays a key role in shaping the foreign policies of China and Russia. Applying social identity theory—the idea...
F*** You Cancer
How to face the big C, live your life and still be yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
**As seen on BBC Breakfast**
You are stronger than you know, more positive than you ever thought and you can still LIVE with cancer.
Drink more green juices, eat turmeric, walk for three hours a day... Arghh, I wanted to scream, run away and tell every well-meaning person to go and do...
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently...
Climate in Motion
Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites....
Disability
Controversial Debates and Psychosocial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Deborah Marks examines current theories and practices relating to disability. The focus of the work is not disabled people as 'objects' of study but rather an analysis of disability as it has been historically and culturally constructed and psychically experienced. The chapters cover:
* language and...
Getting in the Game
Title IX and the Women's Sports Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Title IX, a landmark federal statute enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex discrimination in education, has worked its way into American culture as few other laws have. It is an iconic law, the subject of web blogs and T-shirt slogans, and is widely credited with opening the doors to the massive numbers...
by Deborah R. Simkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Patients in psychiatry, or their parents, experiment with alternative methods and practices. Psychiatrists, in search of scientifically-based discussion and evidence of use for daily practice, find that information in this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics. Readers will find clinically...
Medicine as Culture
Illness, Disease and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Lupton's newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever.
Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of Sydney
A welcome update of a text that has become a mainstay of the medical sociologist's library.
Alan Radley, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology,...